Beyond Despair and Hope: a Close Reading of Lu Xun's "weeds
by Sun Ge
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It is generally believed that "Wild Grass" is the work that best reveals the author's "truth and depth of soul" and the true life state of Lu Xun. Sun Ge takes Lu Xun and "Wild Grass" as the research objects of intellectual history, and uses the unique ideological paths of Takeuchi Yoshi and Mizoguchi Yuzo to reinterpret the relationship between Lu Xun and tradition, Lu Xun's loneliness, fighting and perseverance after the ebb of the May Fourth Movement, and Lu Xun's profound experience and life thinking of pursuing the origin of life "beyond despair and hope". By carefully reading 23 articles one by one, the author reinterpreted the core concepts in "Weeds" such as "intermediate objects", "between light and darkness", and "the array of nothingness". In particular, he gained a unique understanding of Lu Xun's "truth-seeking" consciousness and his "anti-traditional" thoughts. The author believes that Lu Xun is not a general "anti-tradition", but "has always inherited some of the most critical elements in tradition in a fractured and decisive way." Therefore, it is necessary to clarify the multi-faceted and ambiguous nature of "tradition" and to analyze the decomposition and transformation of tradition in modern times. In this sense, Lu Xun's "truth-seeking" is in the same vein as Li Zhuowu in the late Ming Dynasty. In fact, he "entered the context of tradition and selectively inherited it."
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